This reall needs to be questioned sent further. Players were missing games for touching refs last year. This is clearly a bad look on the game and shows they were defiantly against us this game.
macybrown > Frankie savage May 25, 2018 at 12:43pm
Good point! so nrl like isn’t it... even yesterday’s taboo rule is always old news a few months later
Hmmmmm... I am usually the first to say the refs aren't corrupt. I usually put their mistakes down to human error, poor judgement, laziness, stupidity, lack of awareness etc.
But I can't defend this. I am at a loss. This is disgusting. I hope they come out and explain it because I love my footy and this is hurts.
No matter what reasons the NRL give for this incident, none of them are of a professional nature!
Officials should be made to identify players by number only, as well. Total garbage to expect to be called Sir after approaching a player with "Ay Clinton!" An exception would be the Captain.
Hi fiving, low fiving, secret handshakes, winking, etc. between officials and players is absurd! I'm all for the ban on players touching officials but why the double standards here?
Also bullshit is the coaching some players receive during play! Statements like "you've been offside the last 3 tackles" or "I won't warn you again" is hard to hear when we're behind! The refs counting penalties and discussing on-field performance is another joke!
"Most athletes who compete in the Olympics for Australia would do so at a loss (when they factor in all of their training and sport costs).
If they don't want to play for Australia, then don't. Someone else will...
The reality is that these…"
"A lot of sportspeople that represent Australia in all different sports get payed hardly nothing, they do it for pride, and honour to represent your country. If your doing it for money no wonder we had so many islanders wanting to represent Australia…"
"
How much do you think the game makes from State of Origin? Ticket sales alone would be huge. Let's say over the 3 games 160,000 tickets are sold for an average price of $150 each. This equals $24,000,000 plus broadcasting revenue and sponsorship…"
"
When you consider that a million dollar per season player earns just over $40,000 per game to play club football, leaving the country and there families for about 5 weeks to play for Australia earning only $3000 per game is unfair. We constantly…"
Replies
It certainly makes you wonder........
Nice Professional look from an Un-Professional organisation.
Todd Greenburg will brush it under the carpet and pretend as if he never saw it.
Good point! so nrl like isn’t it... even yesterday’s taboo rule is always old news a few months later
But I can't defend this. I am at a loss. This is disgusting. I hope they come out and explain it because I love my footy and this is hurts.
No matter what reasons the NRL give for this incident, none of them are of a professional nature!
Officials should be made to identify players by number only, as well. Total garbage to expect to be called Sir after approaching a player with "Ay Clinton!" An exception would be the Captain.
Hi fiving, low fiving, secret handshakes, winking, etc. between officials and players is absurd! I'm all for the ban on players touching officials but why the double standards here?
Also bullshit is the coaching some players receive during play! Statements like "you've been offside the last 3 tackles" or "I won't warn you again" is hard to hear when we're behind! The refs counting penalties and discussing on-field performance is another joke!
Pretty sure Brisbane got warned 3 times last night that if they gave another penalty someone would be binned.